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“Get Your Hopes Up!” – Word For Life Says

When discussing your dreams, ambitions, and life goals there are two types of people you deal with: the pessimist and the optimist. The pessimists have the habit of speaking negativity into everything that comes across their path. And, if one is really stepping out on faith and shooting for the moon with a certain determined objective in mind, one that doesn’t fit into the ordinary way one may think, it usually eggs this negative-Nelly on to speak even more of all the things that could go wrong.

Whereas, the optimist doesn’t see the same barriers the pessimist sees. The optimists believe that if you want to shoot for the moon, shoot, and don’t stop until you land on it. For this one there is no such thing as an unattainable goal. “If you can dream it, you can live it,” is their life motto.

There are a lot of things that many of us want to do in life but setbacks cause some to shrink away from those dreams. The fighting to press forward before can put a damper on the will to fight again to see desires be fulfilled.

But, in our Christian journey, if we are doing nothing else, we are walking by faith (2 Cor. 5:7). Everything we believe in and look forward to is based on hope and expectation. There are a lot of things that we can’t see in this present day, but a glorious future is whispered in our ears by the voice of hope; the voice that never stops believing there is more. There is greater to come because God has declared it throughout His Word.

While the world tries to dim your light and say, “Don’t get your hopes up;” I say, “Get your hopes up” and get excited about what God wants to do through His people in this new year! Enter this year with expectations raised higher than ever before! Don’t shrink back, but stir up the hope within and believe so much more for 2018! Reach beyond even the positivity of the optimist and declare, “I am a hope-imist!”